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[Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about this bug for MacOS that makes it too frustrating to use eeschema?

Basically, I cannot navigate by zooming around in eeschema because the
mouse scroll triggers on fine steps of the scroll wheel instead of the
larger ratchet steps, it's not just that this is a granularity issue it's a
consistency of navigation issue because when the scroll wheel springs back
to the ratchet position of the original zoom, the actual zoom level is
different and I have to play with the scroll wheel until the zoom level
looks OK. Coupled with a HiDPI display which slows down Eeschema and GOOD
BYE KiCAD on MacOS, it's too frustrating.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1753054

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 2:45 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Rene,
>
> On 05/18/2018 11:53 AM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
> > On 18/05/18 16:44, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >> If any of our doc and library devs are on this mailing list, please
> >> forward this information so we aren't making major changes to the docs
> >> and libraries at the last minute.
> >>
> >
> > We have one important pull request open that i will fix up my self
> > tomorrow if the contributor does not fix the remaining issues him self.
> > (Removing duplicate power pins from symbols as this can be quite
> > dangerous if the user connects them multiple times.)
> >
> > After this is merged i will tag the library with "5.0.0-rc2" (Tomorrow
> > evening)
> >
> > After this tag is set we will no longer allow renaming of libs until v6
> > development. (Adding new libs will still be allowed.)
>
> I'm OK with this.
>
> >
> > I will also create a kicad 4 compatibility backport for this lib. (The
> > intention is to allow users to use the new library structure for new
> > projects even if they can not update to a nightly build. This should
> > reduce their work when they then switch over to kicad 5)
> >
> > This backport will contain a reduced number of footprints as footprints
> > with custom or roundrect pads are not supported by kicad 4. I will also
> > backport the symbol libs. The 3d lib does not need any work in this
> > regard but i will still ad a separate release tag to make it easier for
> > users. Not sure if i will make a backport of the templates.
> > Creating this backport will take some time but i hope to have it done
> > one week after the rc2 tag is set.
>
> Awesome!  I'm sure our v4 users will appreciate this.
>
> >
> >
> > Regarding the issue about footprint connection you reported in [1]:
> > All symbols that have a valid symbol in the footprint lib are now
> > correctly connected. Sadly a lot of symbols still need footprints to be
> > generated. (Symbols where in the lib that never had a valid footprint)
> > Some of this will be fixed after the rc2 release. This will not impact
> > the library structure so i assume we can include these changes in the
> > final v5 release. (It will simply add more footprints.)
>
> That fine by me.  If we are going add new symbol libraries during v5, I
> don't see any reason not to add new footprints and footprint libraries.
> We should try to avoid wholesale renaming and/or moving of libraries and
> their contents to avoid headaches for users.  If we have any major
> library reorganizations, we can always create a v5 branch as we do for
> the KiCad source.
>
> Thank you for all of your hard work on the libraries.  They really have
> come a long way since v4 was released.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> >
> > [1]: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-symbols/issues/520
> >
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